Crowdsourcing

I. Introduction The advancements of new media have contributed to the explosive use of social media by journalist (Hermida 2011; Messner, Linke, and Eford 2011; Newman 2009). Gulyas (2013) demonstrated that the vast majority (96%) of the journalists responded to his research among 4 countries (Finland, German, Sweden and the UK) used social media for their work. Besides, the 1440-minute news-cycle created by social media significantly impacts journalistic practices in terms of newsgathering and…

became apparent that companies can no longer afford to rely entirely on their own ideas to advance their business, nor can they restrict their innovations to a single path to market (Henry W.Chesbrough, 2003). In that vein, open innovation and crowdsourcing are trending up and becoming a manifestation of a larger bandwagon…

Additionally five value dimensions are found to define the driving intention of participation in a crowdfunding project. 1. Financial Value: It is based on the individual’s return as a result of his/her investment. This is the strongest of all predictor variables. 2. Functional Value: According to the functionality of the project according to the supporter plays an important role in the intention to participate. 3. Social Value: Some people take part in a crowdfunding project for…

shouldn’t be ignorant to the idea that the environment has an influence in the creation of identities, for we cannot prosper if we don’t adapt and conform to our environment’s needs. However, that’s not to say we can’t improve our environment through crowdsourcing on a more efficient system of organization, thereby establishing an…

innovation relevantly. We analyse the stages of affresh development until it became a global brand from innovation perspective, with emphasis on marketing stages. They have also considered different tools of innovation toolkit including partnerships, crowdsourcing, technology brokering, technology scouting, and consumer collaboration. Whirlpool describes their experience for affresh as integration of triple diamond, which are idea generation, idea development, and commercialization. For us,…

al. (2013) and Prieto et al. (2014) successfully use Twitter data to detect depression and other mental health conditions, and argue that Twitter text data is viable to capture individuals psychological state. Choudhury et al. (2013) employed crowdsourcing to obtain a set of Twitter user who are clinically depressed based on standard psychometric tests. The author then retrieved their social information for last year and extracted behavioral text features and network features to predict the…

New Zealand broadcast journalism has undergone significant changes in the last decade. These changes have been initiated glaringly by the development of digital technologies and the internet. This essay will discuss the recent shifts in New Zealand broadcast journalism. Furthermore, arguing that although it is transforming, broadcast journalism is still applicable in today’s society. The internet has given rise to inordinate variety in content; thus, audiences for broadcast journalism have been…

I. 3.3. Finances Nonprofit organizations require funds to not only sustain their organization; but growth is also very costly to the organization having to deal with various new expenses (Connolly and Klein, p.3). Securing finances has been seen to those scaling impact generally (Massarsky and Gillespie, p.24, 2013) across numerous published literature to be one of the major if not main factor to nonprofit 's being able to scale their impact successfully. Brest stated that an area for need for…

well as for those stuck in their homes. The pamphlets were available in English as well as in the local language(Tamil) and was disseminated through social media as well as in physical form through relief teams. An idea I developed was to use crowdsourcing as a means of studying movement patterns of diseases in a natural disaster and serve as a real-time update for evidence-based medical decisions. Although the process of collecting information proved too difficult as I lacked the resources, I…

that are in the top quartile are more likely to maintain a sustainable company environment; further supporting diversity in the long term. A report by the Deloitte University Press states, "Technological advances are enabling new ways, such as crowdsourcing and gamification, to bring the diversity of human thinking to bear on challenging problems." Personally, I have been fortunate to work in a team full of diverse thinkers. I am currently in an international Stanford crowd research project…